Transportation recently surpassed electricity production as the largest carbon dioxide emitter. Trees can reduce environmental impact while calming traffic, encouraging walking, decreasing aggressive driving and extending the life of pavement.

Case Studies

“Planners who succeed tend to be opportunistic... It is, in a way, a creative awareness of the many linkages that exist among the variety of social, political, environmental, and economic issues that confront planners in their everyday work.”
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With more trees removed from urban areas than National Forests, urban wood reuse in legacy cities can ignite new industrial economies that create jobs, improve ecosystems, and reduce environmental impact.

You can apply lessons from the Baltimore experience in your own community.

Trees and urban forests endure multiple sources of stress. Most can be handled through proper planting and regular maintenance. But every community at some point will endure an event that creates catastrophic stress, a disaster. It may be fire, hurricanes, flooding, wind and ice storms or epidemics of tree-killing pests and disease. What happens then, depends on what you’re doing now.